No man loses his all by any sentence which a human judge can inflict.

No man so loses anything approaching to his all, however much he may have lost before.

But the one man has too often had no self-respect to risk; the other has stood high in his own esteem, has held his head proudly before the world, has aspired to walk in some way after the fashion of a god.

Alaric had so aspired, and how must he have felt during those prison days! Of what nature must his thoughts have been when they turned to Gertrude and his child! His sin had indeed been heavy, and heavy was the penalty which he suffered.

When they had been thus living for about three months, Gertrude's second child was born.